"Obama" Care, good or bad for the country?

I just read that 46% of Americans want all or part of what they call “Obama” care revoked, where 36% support it.  The majority of the opposition is apparently that people don’t like being told that they must buy insurance.  Americans don’t like being told what to do generally, so I’m not surprised by the poll results.  The surprising part for me is how the mandate is harped on by the tea party, and other supposedly conservatives because being responsible enough to buy insurance is wrong?  I thought being responsible was right, and people call me a liberal. 

About 50% of Americans have employer health care, where the other 50% are on their own.  It’s the others that don’t have insurance that irk me, and when they get sick they go to the emergency room.  I don’t call that responsible.  I would like to make the distinction however, that for people that can’t afford health care insurance, they should have another option, like a government voucher, like is planned in the “Obama” care program.  For those that don’t buy insurance, but can afford it, they need a swift kick in the pants, and that too is in the “Obama” care program in the form of a mandate, you buy insurance, or you get fined.  The goal here is to have everyone covered by insurance, and pushing the cost of care down.  If someone that wants to revoke the “Obama” care program has some ideas that they think can pass the Congress, speak up, please!

If you have been paying attention, you would have noticed that health care in America just keeps on going up, last year by 9%.  This health care inflation, or robbery as some call it, is unsustainable and will collapse I believe in a few years, because employers will eventually find that they can’t afford quality care and drop it, and those paying for insurance on their own will either stop paying or go broke.  Some option!  Unsustainable is the word to keep in mind, when considering if "Obama” care will make an improvement to the current situation with the pools of insurance policies that will be available to anyone who chooses, and those with vouchers, or trying to avoid being fined for not having insurance.  The estimates I hear about are that the program will reduce Medicare costs over time.

The other latest talk I hear is that “Obama” care will give the big employers an out, so to speak, some opting to pay the $2,000 fine rather than providing $5,000 worth of insurance or more to their employees.  Which brings me back to the unsustainable problem, that will crash the system anyway.  So what’s better, a system that is sure to go down soon, or a program that will bring everyone into a pool of health care insurance that is competitive and gives us a healthcare future? 

No doubt something must be done right away, and I feel that the “Obama” care is our best hope of forestalling a guaranteed disaster.  I am using quotations around “Obama” because it was Congress that passed the bill, not the President.  He only signed it.